Technically she's on the bed

So I should be happy, right?
The top picture is from her nap, and the bottom was at bedtime.

New Bubbles

Ellen and her letters

Proof of the nerdery.

Kid pile

Cute Little Mellen

I'm afraid we have another genius on our hands. She can recognized the letters A, E, L, O, R, and Y. Probably more. She can also pick out (and say, of course) the color yellow. Nerd.

Jacket? Why? It's Just Snow...

Over the 3-day weekend we went to Milton-Freewater (my camera stayed in the car for no good reason), and then Ontario. Ontario still had snow, and Emily was in heaven...

PLUS, Curtis had given Emily some bubbles.
Bubbles + Snow = Best Day Ever (for Em)

Ellen had some opinions about something. I can't remember what.

How to tell if you put your 3-year-old's pants on your 1-year-old...

Poor Ellers...

My second ever dutch oven meal

Here's the recipe.

(Can you tell I'm excited about my new dutch oven?)

Pink Panther + Sunday Afternoon =

Carrot Cutter

Another odd sleeping location

A REAL big girl bed

The Reeds gave us their old bunk bed, and we brought it back with us from California. We got a mattress for the bottom bunk, and Emily is thrilled with her new bed (the top bunk is clearly bonus storage).

Em picked out some cute bedding at Ikea. She's hiding under it--you just can't see. Ellen approved it, too.

Passed out with all of her ducks in the new bed.

During assembly--Emily was testing out her new bedding.

Snow! (Yes, these are from 12/29)

Tiny little snowball...

Honestly, I don't really think Ellen really cared about the snow at all. She was just thrilled to be outside (ask Cindy--she drug her all over SoCal when we were there).

One of Emily's all-time favorite activities is throwing snowballs.

The Emerald Bowl

We went over to Uncle Jim & Aunt Christie's for the USC game. It was nice to finally watch a game with fellow Trojans.

The tiger and bear were playing in the zoo.

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Poor, poor Abby. She's awfully good with kids. Thank goodness.

Abby and Emily had fun, too.

Ellen loves Trojan football. Fight on!

Noisy Toy

Santa didn't follow through on the noisy toys, but Aunt Cindy sure did.

Ellen just loves sprinkles.